Is extreme wealth, and the tax system that protects it, a problem?
Axis: a serious problem ... not a problem / earned
John
| date | change | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-11-04 | new | John thinks Romney's plan to exempt the first $250,000 of capital gains, even for people making a billion a year, is a bad idea and Obama's higher capital gains rate is better, though he might be wrong. | Policy and Politics: Brotherhood 2.0 Week Begins 00:02:55 |
Hank
| date | change | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-31 | new | Hank: taxing capital gains below earned income seems tremendously unfair: an Applebee's waitress pays a higher rate than a billionaire; maybe bad policy, certainly bad ethics; open to being convinced. | Why The Rich Pay Lower Taxes 00:02:46 |
| 2013-08-23 | refine | Hank: Bath's monuments display the excesses we rightly complain about (income inequality, concentrated wealth), yet only such concentration made them; global inequality is worse still, and the best legacy would be peace, plenty and equality. | Thoughts from Bath: The Legacy of Wealth 00:02:06 |
| 2013-12-06 | refine | Hank says inequality arises naturally as the path of least resistance and is bad for the poor, the economy and everyone's happiness, so society needs structures, including government, to fight it. | I Am President Snow 00:02:59 |